NYT Connections: hints and answers for Saturday, July 6

Connections, the NYT's latest cryptic word game, challenges you to sort 16 words into four categories (you can't see which yet!), based on relationships between the words. Each day's puzzle is reset at midnight, and each puzzle varies in difficulty. As with Wordle, you can track your win streak and compare scores with friends.

Some days are more difficult than others. It's common to get stuck on one of the Connections puzzles we run every weekday. If that's the case today (and it happens to the best of us), you might find our tips and hints below helpful. And if ...